By Taylor Popielarz
Waiting in the bitter cold or pouring rain for a Quinnipiac shuttle is never a fun time. That’s why the Department of Public Safety, along with the Student Government Association, is launching a new app that will let students track the shuttles.
The app is called TransLoc.
“You can actually pull up the Quinnipiac shuttle busses in real time because all the busses have GPS’s on them now,” Shanon Grasso, the parking and transportation coordinator for Quinnipiac’s Department of Public Safety, said. “And you’re able to see [busses] on a map, where the busses are currently located.”
Grasso has spent the past year plotting out the logistics for the app, which include thousands of GPS coordinates that help locate a particular shuttle.
“You can go to the next page of the app and actually see all the bus stops and what time the bus will be at the next stop,” she said.
Grasso and her team are officially launching the app on March 27th, and are raffling off a 40-inch flat screen television to one lucky student. To qualify for the raffle, students must stop by a table in the student center, and show that they’ve downloaded both the new Transloc app, and the QU Mobile app, which serves as a hub for all school-related apps.
Chief David Barger, who heads the Department of Public Safety, says the app furthers his team’s focus on their green initiative, noting that thousands of paper pamphlets depicting the shuttle schedules have been passed out in the past.
Students Q30 News spoke to thought very highly of the app, especially since it seems fairly accurate, thanks to each shuttle bus having a GPS implanted in it.
Grasso, who led the effort to build the app alongside deputy chief Ed Rodriguez and SGA, is hopeful that the launch of the app will promote its popularity.
“I would like to have as close to 100-percent of the student population downloading these apps and using them,” Grasso said.
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